Publications

Lex Stein, David Holland, Margo Seltzer, and Zheng Zhang.
Can a file system virtualize processors? (PDF)
In Proceedings of the 1st EuroSys Workshop on Virtualization for HPC,
Lisbon, Portugal, March 2007.

Errata: there is a typo in Figure 8 of the
published paper. The caption should read ``...
scsi1 runs 60-70% faster for all tests when
cursors are enabled. ide1 is only 50%
faster for the 2-stride test...'' This on-line
version of the paper is correct.

Kostas Magoutis.
The Optimistic Direct Access File System: Design and Network Interface Support
(Postscript,
PDF)
Appears in Proceedings of Workshop on Novel Uses of System Area Networks
(Held in conjunction with HPCA-8), Cambridge, MA, February 2, 2002.

Keith A. Smith and Margo I. Seltzer.
File System Aging - Increasing the Relevance of File System Benchmarks
(Postscript),
Appears in Proceedings of the 1997 ACM SIGMETRICS International Conference
on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems,
June 1997, Seattle, WA.

Theses

Lex Stein.
Adaptive Parallel Computation for Heterogeneous Processors
(Abstract),
A dissertation presented by Lex Stein to the School of
Engineering and Applied Sciences in partial fulfillment of
the requirements for the Doctor of Philosophy in the subject
of Computer Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA,
May, 2007

Daniel J. Ellard.
Trace-Based Analyses and Optimizations for Network Storage Servers
(Abstract),
A dissertation presented by Daniel J. Ellard to The School of
Engineering and Applied Sciences in partial fulfillment of
the requirements for the Doctor of Philosophy in the subject
of Computer Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA,
May, 2004

Kostas Magoutis.
Exploiting Direct-Access Networking in Network Attached Storage Systems
(Abstract),
A dissertation presented by Kostas Magoutis to The School of
Engineering and Applied Sciences in partial fulfillment of
the requirements for the Doctor of Philosophy in the subject
of Computer Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA,
May, 2003

Keith Arnold Smith.
Workload-Specific File System Benchmarks
(Abstract),
A dissertation presented by Keith Arnold Smith to The School of
Engineering and Applied Sciences in partial fulfillment of
the requirements for the Doctor of Philosophy in the subject
of Computer Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA,
January, 2001

Salimah Addetia.
CacheDAFS: User Level Client-side Caching for the Direct Access File System (DAFS)
(Abstract),
A thesis presented by Salimah Addetia to The School of
Engineering and Applied Sciences in partial fulfillment of
the requirements for the Master of Engineering in the subject
of Computer Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 2001